#fluttering

I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#hated #historical #i #novels

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#first #fluttering #holier #life #love

She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#seduction #seduction